This evening at its Campfire One event, Google showcased a number of new technologies coming to Google Web Toolkit (you can see my live blog of the event here ). The big announcements include the release of a new Speed Tracer tool to help developers speed up their web apps; a code splitting...
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Google Web Toolkit: Now With Speed Tracer, Code Splitting, And More
Brizzly Is The Most Handsome Chrome Extension. If Only It Were A Little Faster…
As we all know, today was Chrome Extension day . By now, you’ve likely tried out many of them and picked some that you like as well as those that you don’t. Easily one of my favorites so far is the Brizzly extension built by Thing Labs. It’s hands down the best-looking app...
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Why The Magazine Industry Wants Its Own App Store. It’s All About The Data.
The magazine industry is falling over itself over a new shiny object. It wants to remake its product for a new class of digital tablets with color screens and touch screens. Today, a group of big publishers—Condé Nast, Time Inc., News Corp. Hearst, and Meredith—announced a joint venture to create standards for digital...
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Online Holiday Spending Reaches $16 Billion; Social Media Continues To Influence Purchases
We heard strong reports for online traffic Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but today, comScore added definitive spending numbers that indicate that holiday shopping online is picking up this year. For the holiday season-to-date, nearly $16 billion has been spent online, which is a 3 percent increase versus the same period last year....
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When Google Said No Extensions For Mac Yet, They Meant It
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, the beta versions of Chrome for Mac and Linux launched today (as we anticipated ), as did Chrome Extensions (a day earlier than we anticipated). Also as anticipated , extensions are not currently supported in the beta build of Chrome for Mac (though they are for...
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One Kings Lane Raises Funding From KPCB, First Round And Reid Hoffman
One Kings Lane , an e-commerce startup that operates a private sales website dedicated to home furnishings, decor, and related products, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding in a round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers , with First Round Capital and angel investor Reid Hoffman participating. One Kings Lane was...
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Image Recognition Startup PicScout Adds Joi Ito As Advisor
PicScout a startup that produces image tracking technology for stock photography agencies, professional photographers and others is adding the CEO of Creative Commons, Joi Ito, to its board of advisors. PicScout originally started off as a content copyright enforcer, hunting down unlicensed images on the web with its flagship ImageIRC technology. The company...
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Brightcove Teams Up With TubeMogul To Power Its Analytics
When Brightcove released a major upgrade to its online video platform last month, one of the new set of features was better analytics. It turns out that Brightcove’s new video analytics suite is powered TubeMogul . Professional video publishers who use Brightcove can now measure things like the geographic distribution of their viewers,...
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A Million People Riding Google Wave. Most Of Them On Their Stomachs.
The first time you go surfing, it’s a pretty significant achievement to just stand up on the board and ride a wave. Most people never leave their stomachs, or when they do, they fly face first into the wave. Google Wave, it seems, is not entirely dissimilar. On its Google Wave Blog today...
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Survive Mother Nature With Outdoor Gear of the Year
Stepping outside shouldn't intimidate any geek. Especially when said geek is carrying gadgets like a bespoke ax, a brilliant headlamp and a solid titanium watch.
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